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  • We have a responsibility to reach out to these new forces of struggle, to encourage and support them and help to activise them to confront the Pretoria regime in unity with all other anti apartheid forces.

    JANUARY 8 STATEMENT - 1989 1989

  • We have a responsibility to reach out to these new forces of struggle, to encourage and support them and help to activise them to confront the Pretoria regime in unity with all other anti apartheid forces.

    THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 1989

  • We have a responsibility to reach out to these new forces of struggle, to encourage and support them and help to activise them to confront the Pretoria regime in unity with all other anti-apartheid forces.

    FORWARD TO MASS ACTION FOR PEOPLE'S POWER! 1989

  • If we take the Freedom Charter among the people to organise and teach and activise them, this can be the training of a mighty Congress force that will replace what is old, rotten and unjust with the new, the vital, the just.

    Report of the National Executive Committee 1955

  • We must therefore organise the people properly, politicise and activise them and lead them against the forces of fascism and reaction.

    Report of the National Executive Committee 1954

  • Cautioning that the reduced production of Kharif crop in the current year may have an inflationary impact on prices of food items in the coming months, Singh said the Centre and states will have to work together and activise the public distribution system (PDS).

    The Times of India 2009

  • He said in order to contain increase in prices of essential commodities, the Central government and the state governments will have to work together and activise the public distribution system, which is an important safety net, especially for the poor and helps cushion them against price rise.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • The RSS believes in a "burning devotion to the Motherland (India), a feeling of fraternity among all citizens, intense awareness of a common national life derived from a common (hindu) culture and shared history and heritage", as well as to "activise the dormant Hindu society (of India), realise its past mistakes, to instill in it a firm determination to set them right, and finally to make it bestir itself to reassert its honour and self-respect".

    Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email. 2008

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